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Free download of Little Brother audiobook

The Random House audiobook edition of my novel Little Brother is a free MP3 download this week through Sync, a program that develops the audience of teen/YA audiobook listeners (it's paired with Kafka's The Trial, which is pretty cool). The file itself can only be downloaded with a proprietary downloader from Overdrive, which I couldn't run under WINE on my GNU/Linux system, so I'm not sure how the process goes, but once you've actually gotten the file, it's yours to keep for personal use as a plain-vanilla MP3 with no DRM.

Classroom kit for Little Brother from Oakland International High School ninth graders

Eleventh graders at Oakland International High School read my novel Little Brother and produced a fantastic school reading kit with chapter summaries, student discussions, student-made comic strips, and further topics for classroom discussion. It's a tremendous piece of work, and I'm grateful to the young people in Sailaja Suresh's class.

For the Win selected for Kansas State Reading Circle; Little Brother wins Vermont’s Green Mountain Book Award

This week, I was delighted to learn that my novel For the Win was one of three young adult novels selected for the the Kansas National Education Association's Kansas State Reading Circle list; and then to learn that the Vermont School Library Association, Vermont Library Association and the Vermont Department of Libraries had awarded the state's Green Mountain Book Award to my novel Little Brother, this being a readers' choice award for students in grades 9-12. My sincere thanks to the readers, teachers and librarians who've chosen my books for these honors -- they mean the world to me.

Polish Little Brother cover

Thanks to Ludwik Stawowy for sending along the cover for the Polish edition of Little Brother, AKA Maly Brat!

Raising money to buy Little Brother for a “high poverty” NYC classroom

Mr K, a NYC high-school English teacher in a "high poverty" school is raising money to buy a set of copies of my book Little Brother for his grade nine students, who "do so uncritically with very little knowledge of their rights as users, architects." I'm humbled and honored by Mr K's faith in my book to help his students, and I've contributed to the project. One of my readers, Chris Holmes, is growing a mustache to support Mr K's kids -- who knew facial hair could do so much good!

German Little Brother shortlisted for LovelyBooks Leserpreis

Hey, German Little Brother fans! The Rowohlt German edition of the book has been short-listed for LovelyBooks's Leserpreis –die besten Buecher 2010, and you can vote for it!

Spanish fan-trans Little Brother ePub

Santiago Benejam Torres converted Axxon's fan-translation of Little Brother to ePub, and is making it available gratis on his site. Thanks, Santiago!

Update: I've just heard from Eduardo Hojman, my editor at Puck, that the Spanish edition of Little Brother will be published on March 7, under the title, "PEQUEÑO HERMANO"! It'll be distributed worldwide -- through Spain and Latin America.

Little Brother Serbian edition

The Serbian edition of my novel Little Brother has just been published by Profil Knjiga!

Little Brother, the play, back on in Phoenix, AZ

A high-school in Phoenix, Arizona is mounting a production of the theatrical adaptation of my novel Little Brother (this is the same script that was mounted for the 2008 performances in Chicago, written by Bill Massolia). They're doing a three-night run, starting tomorrow -- tickets are still available.

Song based on Little Brother

Corrinne Hite is a fifteen-year-old singer/songwriter who has just finished an album of songs based on the novels she loves. She's done me the honor of writing a song based on my novel Little Brother: stream it here.

Corrine's band, CORY & THE TIGERMEN, is in the SchoolJamsUSA finals (northeast region). US residents can vote for her -- she'd have my vote if I was eligible!

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